TrailMark v0.2.1

TrailMark is a fast, beautiful Markdown IDE that keeps up with your AI agents. It works with any
tool, or none: it only relies on your files and git.

TrailMark now speaks Português (Brasil), Español and Deutsch, opens from the Windows file manager, and gets a single
Read | Visual | Source switch, a window that remembers its place, and an Explorer that handles workspaces of several repositories.

Added

• One mode switch in the header: Read | Visual | Source. It replaces the Edit button and the Visual / Source switch that only showed while
  editing, and it is always there while a document is open (Simple mode too). One click goes to any mode, keeping your place (the block at the
  top of the view stays at the top, in all three) and your unsaved work; leaving an editor for Read with unsaved changes asks, as before, to
  Save, Discard or Keep editing. Ctrl+E and E open the editor you used last (the Open files for editing in setting until you use one),
  Ctrl+Alt+E toggles Visual and Source, or from Read opens the editor you did not use last. For a file that cannot be edited the Visual and Source
  segments are dimmed, with the reason as their tooltip. In a narrow header the labels become icons, and the switch works with the arrow keys,
  Home and End, with tooltips that name the shortcut.
• Repositories inside a project are always in the tree. A folder with its own .git shows up even when the project's .gitignore
  leaves it out, which is how a workspace folder that collects several independent repositories is usually set up. Inside each one its own
  .gitignore and .git/info/exclude decide what is listed, not the project's. Search, Quick open, tags and live updates cover their files
  too. Linked worktrees work as before.
• Two new switches in the Explorer filter, saved with it and off by default: Show hidden files and folders (names that start with a dot) and
  Show files ignored by git. Folders with more than 2,000 entries that git ignores (node_modules, target, build output) are listed
  closed, with a "large folder" tag, instead of being read.
• .trailmark/ is easier to find. A quiet banner offers to keep tags and settings with the project when you open a git repository that
  doesn't have a .trailmark/ folder yet (Initialize, Not now, Never for this folder), and the tag editor has an Initialize .trailmark
  link next to "Saved in TrailMark, not in the file". Both open the existing Initialize dialog.
• The window remembers its size and position. TrailMark opens where you left it, including maximized, with no jump: the window is
  placed before it is shown. Each project folder keeps its own place (in the project's private state, never in a file you commit), and
  the last window is used for the welcome screen, a folder opened for the first time and a single file. If the screen it was on is gone,
  or the resolution or display scale changed, the window comes back on the main screen at a size that fits.
• Translations. The interface now comes in Português (Brasil), Español and Deutsch besides English. Settings → Language offers
  System default (the first language of your system that TrailMark speaks, else English) and each language written in itself; the change
  applies at once, without a restart, and is kept for all your projects. Plurals, numbers, dates and relative times follow the language,
  key names in tooltips follow the keyboard of the language (Strg+Umschalt+O in German), and the native dialogs, errors and document
  notes are worded in it too.
• Windows installer languages. The installer asks for English, Português (Brasil), Español or Deutsch, and TrailMark starts in that language
  until you pick one in Settings. A language chosen in the app always wins, and an update never changes it.
• A test fails when a translation misses a key, has an extra one, changes a placeholder, or leaves a long sentence in English. See
  docs/design/i18n.md for the conventions and how to add a language.
• "Open with TrailMark" in the Windows file manager. Right-click a folder, the empty space inside a folder, or a .md / .markdown file and
  choose Open with TrailMark (on Windows 11 it is under Show more options). A second, separate option lists TrailMark in the Open with
  menu of Markdown files; it never takes over your default app (Windows keeps that for you), and Settings → File manager → Make default...
  opens the Windows page where you pick it. Both options are in the installer (on by default for a new install, on its first page) and in
  Settings → File manager, which adds or removes the entries at once and always shows what is registered now. The text of the entry follows the
  language of the interface. Nothing needs administrator rights. An update keeps what you chose (it never adds back what you removed, nor
  removes what you kept), and uninstalling removes every entry.

Changed

• Hidden files and folders (.github, .claude, .vscode, .gitignore, ...) are no longer listed by default, in any preset. Turn on Show
  hidden files and folders to see them; a hidden file that is open still shows, dimmed, in its folder. A hidden folder hides its images too, even
  ones a document links to.
• The Everything preset says that files ignored by git (including those in .git/info/exclude, such as a local-only script) have their own switch.
• The Explorer filter keeps your documentation images. With Only assets next to documents on, an image used to show only when its
  folder, or the one above it, held a document, so the pictures of a top-level assets/ or site/assets/ folder were hidden. Now an image
  also shows when a Markdown document links to it (![](...), a reference definition, or an HTML <img>, resolved from that document, wherever the
  image is), or when it sits in a folder named assets, images, img, media, attachments, screenshots, figures, diagrams or
  pictures. The icons of a code folder stay out unless a document uses them. Data and XML files keep the old rule, and +pattern / -pattern
  entries still win. The set of linked images is kept up to date as documents change, reading only the document that changed.
• Errors from the backend carry a kind and the name or text they are about, and the interface words them; a few messages that used to be fixed
  English sentences (a file that is not UTF-8, a document shown as plain text because of its nesting) are now worded by the interface.
• Enter works like a spreadsheet inside a table in the Visual editor. A table cell can't hold a line break, and Enter used to leave the table.
  Now Enter moves to the same column one row down (and adds a row from the last row), Shift+Enter moves one row up, and Ctrl+Enter
  (Cmd+Enter on macOS) leaves the table. Tab and Shift+Tab still move between cells, and Tab in the last cell adds a row. Undo
  takes an added row away in one step. Enter outside a table is unchanged.
• The Settings panel scrolls when the window is shorter than it is (it grew with the new File manager section), and a popover whose
  content changes size after it opened is placed again.

Fixed

• The folded More formatting menu of the Visual toolbar (in a narrow window) now has the table actions (add and delete rows and
  columns), with the reason as a tooltip when one can't be used.
• Opening a drive root from the file manager ("C:\" on the command line) works.
• The welcome screen opens at the top with a long list of recent folders, instead of scrolled down past the logo.
• Quick open opens a file the Explorer filter hides with one Enter when it is the only kind of match.
• The file name in the header stays readable while editing in longer languages: the "saved ... ago" note and the folders shrink
  first, and Copy reference becomes an icon in a narrow window.

Install

Platform	Download
Windows	the -setup.exe installer (or the .msi)
macOS	the universal .dmg (Apple silicon and Intel)
Linux	the .AppImage, .deb or .rpm

TrailMark updates itself: when a new version is out, it offers a one-click "Restart to update".

The app is not code-signed yet

The installers are unsigned, so your system warns you the first time. They are built by GitHub Actions
from the tagged commit, and the in-app updates are verified with a signature.

Windows (SmartScreen). If you see "Windows protected your PC", click More info, then Run anyway.

macOS (Gatekeeper). If macOS says it can't verify TrailMark, open System Settings, Privacy & Security,
scroll to the Security section and click Open Anyway. On older macOS versions you can right-click the
app and choose Open instead. From a terminal: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/TrailMark.app.

Linux. Make the AppImage executable (chmod +x TrailMark_*.AppImage) and run it, or install the .deb / .rpm.